Project Batfish
Millennial-focused Lifestyle Cycling/Urban Mobility Brand
Overview: A recognized leader in lifestyle cycling and urban mobility for younger generations, this company designs, markets, and sells urban and performance bicycles and e-bikes. Successfully executing an omnichannel sales strategy, including their own website and storefront, Amazon, eBay, and wholesale, this brand has a strong following with Millennial and Gen Z customers as a lifestyle brand selling price-point bicycles and e-bikes.
Highlights:
-Loyal fan-base with younger generations.
-Strong product offering for bicycles and E-bikes.
-Omnichannel sales.
-Scalable mobile pop-up store program.
-Digitally-native business with strong social media following and content generation.
-E-bike momentum and growth potential.
Transaction: The owners are considering options for a full acquisition of its assets to an investor or strategic acquirer that can leverage the brand, intellectual property, products, and community to its fullest potential. The Company represents a unique opportunity for an existing cycling brand, retailer, owner/operator, or investor with a cycling/mobility focus to build a world-class lifestyle cycling brand with this turnkey platform. The opportunity includes brand assets, patents, current inventory. The founders are available for ongoing consulting or employee relationships be negotiation.
Skate Confidential
Turn-key Multi-brand Skateboad Business Platform
Overview: The “Skate Confidential” opportunity represents an asset sale for a portfolio of brands and products offering a comprehensive product list, IP & branding, ecommerce website, valuable sales relationships, and supply chain resources. While this business is not currently active, the brand has a cult-like following and could be re-launched into a leading action sports brand, once again.
Highlights:
- Comprehensive product line of hard goods and streetwear/soft goods.
- Current branding for the family of brands.
- Established sales channel relationships.
- Supply chain relationships.
- Previous collabs with global brands.
- Large markets in outdoor and housewares.
- Brand is ready for relaunch with new ownership
Transaction: The founder is considering options to sell the assets of this business or explore owner/operator partnerships, as he is focused on another venture that has taken him away from this business. The owner is seeking a new owner that can utilize The Company’s brand, intellectual property, products, and community to its fullest potential. The Company represents a unique opportunity for an existing brand, holding company, or investor to re-ignite this promising business.
Project Lumen
Innovative Cycling Safety Light Brand
Overview: “Project Lumen” is an innovator in the parts and accessories category for cycling. The company designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and sells bicycle lights through multiple sales channels. The brand has a cult-like following, known for its distinct and patented product features, playful and fun brand, and superior safety features.
Highlights:
- Innovative, technically advanced product offering.
- Over 250,000 units sold.
- 4 USA Patents.
- USA manufacturing.
- Stable and profitable economics.
- Large community with over 50m video reviews and over 50k email list.
Transaction: The founder is considering options for acquisition of the business, as he is not currently active in the day-to-day operations. The owner is seeking a partner that can utilize The Company’s brand, intellectual property, products, and community to its fullest potential to create safer ways to cycle. The Company represents a unique opportunity for an existing brand, or investor with global sales channels in cycling to add a turn-key product and brand to their portfolio.
Project Explore and Relax
Leading Lifestyle Outdoor and Travel Accessories Brand
Overview: “Project Relax and Explore” is a pioneering brand in the outdoor and travel accessories category, specializing in hammock and hammock accessories. The company designs, markets, and sells outdoor and travel products through multiple sales channels and is a leader in the hammock category. While the brand has been slow to respond to a dynamic market, the brand remains strong and is poised for growth under new ownership and financing resources.
Highlights:
- One of the clear leaders in the hammock category.
- Strong product offering for outdoor, travel accessories.
- Growth opportunities for adjacent products.
- Opportunity for expanded sales channels and geographies.
Transaction: The owners of the company are considering options for a full or partial acquisition of its assets to an institutional or strategic investor that can leverage its brand, intellectual property, products, and community to its fullest potential. The Company represents a unique opportunity for an existing outdoor or travel brand, holding company, retailer, owner/operator, or investor with an outdoor or travel focus to build a world-class lifestyle travel brand with this turnkey platform. The opportunity includes brand assets, patents, current inventory. The founders are available for ongoing relationships in negotiation.
Project Coil
Premium Mountain Bike Brand
Overview: “Project Coil” is a well-known premium mountain bike brand focused on performance full-suspension bicycles for over a decade. The brand is recognized as a pioneer in innovation and has performed at the highest level of the sport, globally, in multiple disciples from gravity to XC. This niche brand is poised for growth in a growing segment of the cycling industry.
Highlights:
- Legacy brand in mountain biking
- Leading full-suspension designs
- Premium brand position in high-end mountain bike segment
- Clean asset sale
- Founder willing to continue with the business
Transaction: The founder is considering options for partial or full acquisition to bring resources for capital and operations to propel this venture to its potential as a leading global mountain bike brand. The founder is motivated to continue with the business post-transaction.
Project Arthur
Premium Cycling Component/Wheel Company
Overview: “Project Arthur” is an innovative cycling component business for over 3 years. The company engineers, designs, manufactures, and sells, high-performance carbon fiber components, globally. The company has established itself as a leader in the premium road, gravel, triathlon, and mountain bike sectors of the industry, offering highly innovative, and patented products that increase performance and experience for their customers.
Highlights:
- Industry-leading reputation and ratings
- Proven leadership team
- World-class product line
- Patented solution for tubeless tire mounting
- Leading aerodynamics against competition
- Cult-like consumer base; ready for growth
- Robust product roadmap; bars, stem, posts, alloy and e-bike rims, and more.
- Differentiated product in an attractive market segment
Transaction: The Company is considering options for a partial or full sale to recapitalize the business for the next round of growth, and to allow the business to reach its fullest potential. The Company represents a unique opportunity for an existing cycling brand to obtain a world-class component offering, or for an investor to invest in the next great component/wheel brand with potential for a strong return on investment.
Project Adventure
Leading Adventure Travel Mountain Bike Touring Company
Overview: “Project Adventure” is a leading Mountain Bike touring business for over 20 years. The company creates, advertises, and delivers guided MTB trips globally. The company has established itself as a leader in the high-end mountain bike sector of adventure travel, offering a highly regarded, safe, and experience for their customers.
Highlights:
- Industry-leading reputation and ratings
- Over 20-years of experience
- World-class infrastructure
- Best-in-class staff
- Refined training and on-boarding program
- Strong IT infrastructure
- Robust consumer database
Transaction: The Company is interested in a full acquisition of its assets to a strategic industry business that can leverage its brand, operations, systems, turnkey service offerings, and existing resources. The Company represents a unique opportunity for an existing cycling brand, adventure travel or hospitality company, or investor with a cycling focus to add world-class mountain bike touring to their organization.
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Project Hurricane
Innovative Gravity-Focused Mountain Bike Brand
Overview: “Project Hurricane” is a leading gravity-focused MTB and has pushed innovation for over a decade. The company designs, engineers, and utilized as global supply chain to deliver pioneering MTB innovation. The company has established a cult following for their solutions-driven, patent-proven, products for DH, All-Mountain, Enduro, and Trail bicycles and components.
Highlights:
- Cult-like following for over a decade.
- Stable, scalable supply chain.
- Portable history, turnkey business platform.
- Innovative designs, protected by patents.
- Authentic heritage brand.
- Stable, profitable business.
Transaction: The Company is interested in a full acquisition of its assets to a strategic investor that can leverage its heritage, intellectual property, products, and community. The Company represents a unique opportunity for an existing cycling brand, or retailer, owner/operator, or investor with a cycling focus to build a world-class mountain bike brand with this turnkey platform. The opportunity includes brand assets, patents, current inventory. The founders are available for ongoing consulting or employee relationships be negotiation.
Under exclusive LOI, not accepting new requests